Culture
Nestled in the heart of the Silicon Valley/Bay Area, the Stanford University campus contains all seven schools on a single campus together with the nationally ranked Stanford Hospital and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Beyond the beauty of campus, Stanford is home to one of the nation’s most highly recognized faculty, with 34 recipients of the Nobel prize (19 currently on faculty), 33 MacArthur Fellows, 78 members of the National Academy of Medicine, and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners.
MCiM is a unique program on campus, offering students the opportunity to become part of the vibrant Stanford community while still working full time. The program is also unique in that there is not a single student archetype that engages in MCiM; rather MCiM actively recruits a varied and cross-disciplinary cohort of students, at different career stages, to enrich the experience in the classroom. While MCiM students all have followed different paths to MCiM, they are all united in their passion to harness the power of digital innovations to deliver high-quality, cost-effective health care.
The MCiM community serves our student body. MCiM faculty are drawn from across the University based on their expertise and interest in health care. MCiM has a dedicated staff team to provide ongoing advice and support. MCiM has an exclusive mentor program to help shape career trajectories. Finally, MCiM has built an ecosystem of events and engagement opportunities hosted by MCiM for MCiM students to further enhance your Stanford MCiM experience.
Our Commitment
MCiM is committed to fostering a supportive community that enables students to get the most out of their Stanford educational experience. Our program is fortunate to fall within the Stanford School of Medicine, where fostering a wide range of perspectives and experiences is a core value. MCiM builds on this foundation with additional program-specific strategies to ensure students receive targeted support to achieve their goals.
MCiM aims to build a student cohort that reflects a broad spectrum of intellectual, demographic, and cultural backgrounds across clinical, non-clinical, and technical fields. We view the cross-disciplinary interaction and collaboration that emerge from this range of backgrounds as an essential feature of the program.
Through these efforts, MCiM strives to prepare leaders who champion fairness and a sense of belonging in the workplace and use technology to meet the needs of all populations in health care.
Our Mission
Our mission is to develop leaders who will transform health care. We achieve this mission through the education and professional development of a cohort of students representing a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, united by their commitment to collaboration, fostering belonging, and addressing health care’s most pressing challenges.
Through MCiM, our students will:
- Acquire a greater understanding of the operational, clinical, and ethical complexities leaders face as they seek to optimize new, innovative solutions.
- Build the management skills to lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Learn to strategically leverage data and technology tools in a variety of settings.
- Immediately apply in-class learnings to advance their careers.
- Join an exceptionally accomplished group of professionals and thought leaders from medicine, business, and technology, representing a wide array of expertise and viewpoints.
The "Why" Behind MCiM
Healthcare systems around the world are struggling with our challenges to the triple aim of cost, quality, and access. Our populations are aging, our workforce is strained, and our finances are being questioned at the local and national levels. Overall, we have an enormous productivity gap compared to most other service industries, and we have a gap in essential digital services that exist everywhere but in medicine.
This is a time of enormous excitement - a generational opportunity revolving around the advances in artificial intelligence and large language models. Putting these tools to work will require innovation - a combination of business and technology. Innovation is one of the most challenging aspects of leading any organization. How do we develop leaders who can understand the promise of technology and facilitate adoption and accountability through organizational change? At MCiM, we believe that the formula for success includes mastering a set of core business principles, developing a fundamental understanding of technology, and blending all of this within an overarching framework of biomedical ethics.
In the classroom, learning comes from a cadre of outstanding faculty from Stanford's amazing schools of medicine, engineering, and business. It also comes from a carefully selected cohort of students bringing different backgrounds and skills to the program from the US and globally. Overall, this is a model that has been developed in the first 5 years of MCiM to great success.
Stanford is an amazing environment to support the MCiM program. Everyone at Stanford believes in the optimism that drives innovation in the Bay Area. We also believe in collaboration across disciplines and perspectives - a critical tool in developing novel solutions that can scale. We have a single campus where our medical school, our major hospital, and our university all co-exist. Across Stanford, we have a faculty and a student body that bring genuine excitement and enthusiasm to problem solving - the more difficult the challenge - the better.
This is one of the most exciting times in healthcare and the healthcare economy in my professional career. It’s a time of massive pressure, with an opportunity for fundamental change. But we need leaders to develop solutions, novel models and those who can execute. Please take up this challenge and join us at MCiM.
Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA